Narayani Ramakrishnan


	Narayani Ramakrishnan, PhD Program Officer Basic Immunology Branch Division of Allergy, Immunology and Transplantation NIAID, NIH, DHHS 6610 Rockledge Drive Bethesda, MD 20892-6601 (20817 for express mail) Phone 301-496-7551 Fax 301-480-2381 E-mail: nramakrishnan@niaid.nih.gov & nramakri@comcast.net Ph.D. University of Bombay, Bombay, India M.Sc. University of Madras, Madras, India Current NIH Position: Program Officer, Division of Allergy, Immunology and Transplantation, NIAID. Prior NIH Position: Assistant Director, Division of Receipt & Referral, Center for Scientific Review After completing my Masters and one year of intense education at the Training School at Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC), Bombay, I joined BARC as a Scientific Officer while simultaneously completing my Ph.D. in Biochemistry. After serving at BARC for twelve years, I came to the USA on sabbatical leave and worked at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland for five years on photodynamic therapy of cancer. Following this, I accepted a position at the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute, Department of Defense where I was the principal investigator of a research program to assess, prevent and treat early and long-term health effects of chronic and acute exposure to ionizing radiation, depleted uranium, and oxidative stress. Finally, after twenty years in scientific research, I decided to move into research administration and became the Assistant Director in the Division of Receipt & Referral at the Center for Scientific Review. Currently, as a Program Officer, I manage the Radiological/Nuclear Biodefense Program. My expertise includes multi-disciplinary biomedical research in the assessment, prevention and treatment of radiation-induced hemopoietic and immune suppression, sepsis, apoptosis, DNA damage and repair, chromosome aberrations, chromatin structure and modifications, mutagenesis, and carcinogenesis. This expertise has proved to be extremely valuable in my current role in research administration where I initiate and design independent-research programs, oversee budgets, and implement Public Health Service referral and review policies and procedures. In addition to a fulfilling career, I have been blessed with a very loving and supportive family. I’m active in the Indian community as a teacher at a Vedha Sthuthi Class, and truly enjoy the opportunity to teach children in the US the values and culture I experienced growing up in India.

Narayani Ramakrishnan, PhD

Program Officer
Basic Immunology Branch
Division of Allergy, Immunology and Transplantation
NIAID, NIH, DHHS
6610 Rockledge Drive
Bethesda, MD 20892-6601 (20817 for express mail)
Phone 301-496-7551
Fax 301-480-2381
E-mail: nramakrishnan@niaid.nih.gov & nramakri@comcast.net

Ph.D. University of Bombay, Bombay, India

M.Sc. University of Madras, Madras, India

Current NIH Position: Program Officer, Division of Allergy, Immunology and Transplantation, NIAID.

Prior NIH Position: Assistant Director, Division of Receipt & Referral, Center for Scientific Review

After completing my Masters and one year of intense education at the Training School at Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC), Bombay, I joined BARC as a Scientific Officer while simultaneously completing my Ph.D. in Biochemistry. After serving at BARC for twelve years, I came to the USA on sabbatical leave and worked at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland for five years on photodynamic therapy of cancer. Following this, I accepted a position at the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute, Department of Defense where I was the principal investigator of a research program to assess, prevent and treat early and long-term health effects of chronic and acute exposure to ionizing radiation, depleted uranium, and oxidative stress. Finally, after twenty years in scientific research, I decided to move into research administration and became the Assistant Director in the Division of Receipt & Referral at the Center for Scientific Review. Currently, as a Program Officer, I manage the Radiological/Nuclear Biodefense Program.

My expertise includes multi-disciplinary biomedical research in the assessment, prevention and treatment of radiation-induced hemopoietic and immune suppression, sepsis, apoptosis, DNA damage and repair, chromosome aberrations, chromatin structure and modifications, mutagenesis, and carcinogenesis. This expertise has proved to be extremely valuable in my current role in research administration where I initiate and design independent-research programs, oversee budgets, and implement Public Health Service referral and review policies and procedures.

In addition to a fulfilling career, I have been blessed with a very loving and supportive family. I’m active in the Indian community as a teacher at a Vedha Sthuthi Class, and truly enjoy the opportunity to teach children in the US the values and culture I experienced growing up in India.